Hi, I'm Colleen Atwood, a costume designer. Well, in my career, I've been very lucky to make a few iconic costumes. Probably the first one I was able to make was Edward Scissorhands. It was early in my career – it was the first movie I did with Tim [Burton] so that was probably, you know, a standalone kind of iconic costume in somebody's career. I went on to design the first Alice In Wonderland and Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen and The Mad Hatter. Reinventing Alice was a great challenge and a fun thing. And then these Fantastic Beasts costumes – not only are you figuring out the wizard costumes for these modern, more 20th century wizards, but also creating the world that they lived in.

Whether it's the BAFTA, the Costume Designers Guild Award or the Oscar, it's, you know, it's a huge rush and honour when you win the award. Well when you're someone that works behind the camera and you're in an environment where you have to go in front of the camera, it's really horrifying because… it's just not where you want to be. You'd rather be in the back, fixing people's clothes. So it's a kind of huge, terrifying explosion and then, the next day, is like a little bit of a rush and then it just kind of goes OK well back to normal.

Well I got into costume and film a little bit later in my life. I wanted to be a painter when I was young and then I had a child when I was 17 and so I had to, you know, do other things. And, when she was in high school, I started this career through getting jobs in the fashion industry. I basically moved to New York when I was 29-years-old and started being a costume designer and it was not easy.

I come from a certain time of films and I love a lot of the great Italian films of the 70s, like, you know, that people don't even know about any more, shockingly, but if you just love movies just watch anything that's good. The Godfather I've watched at least 20 times and it's not always because of the costumes, but the costumes are really good and they're iconic because of the movie.